Asthma Resources

Listed below are links to other statewide and nationwide agencies' web resources with information about asthma. Each bulleted name is followed by a brief description of the information found on the website and are in alphabetical order.

Environmental Public Health Tracking
Tracking asthma in Wisconsin allows public health professionals to identify high risk groups, evaluate current prevention efforts, and plan programs and policies to reduce the burden of asthma.

Fight Asthma Milwaukee Allies
FAM Allies works together with children and families connecting them to caring people, reducing hospital stays, and supporting healthy lives.

Pharmacy Society of Wisconsin (PSW)
Pharmacists play an important role in the team-based care of patients with asthma. PSW has championed the cause of helping pharmacists deliver the best care for their patients and has over 3,000 members.

Smoke-free Wisconsin
A diverse group of organizations that supports comprehensive legislation to prohibit smoking in all indoor public places, including public buildings, workplaces, offices, restaurants, and taverns.

Wisconsin Tobacco Quitline
The QuitLine (1-800-QUIT-NOW) offers free, confidential coaching on how to quit smoking or chewing tobacco. It has already helped more than 50,000 callers. The QuitLine coaches offer tips, resources, and help callers formulate a plan for success.

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Wisconsin DNR notifies Wisconsin residents about unhealthy air quality using a new system called Air Quality Watch / Air Quality Advisory. The new system includes the two main pollutants likely to cause health problems in Wisconsin -- ozone and particle pollution (PM2.5).

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDC's National Asthma Control Program supports the goals and objectives of Healthy People 2010 for asthma: to reduce the number of deaths, hospitalizations, emergency department visits, school or work days missed, and limitations on activity due to asthma.

Healthy People 2020
Healthy People 2020 is the prevention agenda for the nation. It is a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.

Maternal and Child Health Library
This library is a selection of current, high-quality resources about asthma in children and adolescents; its management; and its impact on homes, schools, and communities.

Region 5 Air and Radiation Division
U.S. EPA Region 5's Asthma Program works with many partners throughout Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin to help residents with asthma manage their disease.

Asthma Action Plan - Interactive
The iAAP program reflects assessment diagrams and treatment plan step options defined in the NIH, EPR-3 Asthma Guidelines. These algorithms have been incorporated into a user-friendly computerized program that takes the prescribing clinician through an interactive, step by step assessment, treatment and prescribing process. The outcome is a patient-specific printed asthma action plan (AAP) which lists daily and rescue medications and specific steps to take when asthma symptoms are occurring.

Tools for Schools
A comprehensive resource to help schools maintain a healthy environment in school buildings by identifying, correcting, and preventing IAQ problems.

Educational Materials

National Asthma Educator Certification Board
The NAECB exam is a voluntary testing program used to assess qualified health professionals knowledge in asthma education. It is an evaluative process that demonstrates that rigorous education and experience requirements have been met. Certification is voluntary and is not required by law for employment in the field.

World Asthma Day Headquarters
Find a wide variety of information about World Asthma Day, including advice and resources for activity planning, and a listing of World Asthma Day events in your area and around the world.

Designed for community-based asthma programs and organizations that sponsor them-including representatives of health plans and providers, government health and environmental agencies, nonprofits, coalitions, schools and more.

Environmental Asthma

Air Compare
Provides comparisons of air quality based on specific health conditions.

Environmental Health Perspectives
A monthly journal of peer-reviewed research and news on the impact of the environment on human health. EHP is published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

Haz-Map
Links jobs and hazardous tasks with occupational diseases and their symptoms.

Household Products Database
What's under your kitchen sink, in your garage, in your bathroom, and on the shelves in your laundry room? Learn more about what's in these products, about potential health effects, and about safety and handling.

Indoor AIRepair at Home, School and Play kit
The Allergy and Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA) created this useful educational piece, which helps children with asthma, their parents, relatives, school administrators and other community members recognize the correlation between good indoor air quality and improved asthma symptoms.

National Center for Healthy Housing
A partnership that brings together public health and housing practitioners to promote practical and cost-effective methods for making homes healthier. It also serves as a forum for exchanging information on new research and best practices.

National Idle Reduction Campaign
A public information campaign that recognizes the important role of the school bus driver as a professional, who is responsible for the safety and security of children.